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Read one of the Grimms’ fairy tales and create a hero cycle for the journey that the protagonist takes.

Answer 1

Answers may vary.)Fairy tales are entertaining imaginary stories that are passed down through generations by oral communication. They highlight cultural motifs and are based on the universal themes of love, courage, kindness, hatred, cruelty, and compassion. However, the most important characteristic of a fairy tale is its hero cycle. Every fairy tale has a protagonist who goes through various obstacles and is helped in his or her journey by mythical characters or shape shifters to reach a happy ending. Most of the Grimm’s fairy tales supplement this hero cycle with interesting back stories and magic.

Take, for instance, Hansel and Gretel. It is a story about an impoverished family of four, a father his two children—Hansel and Gretel—and his second wife, who despises these two children. Bogged down by poverty, the wife suggests that her husband abandon the two children in the deep forest. So, the couple takes their children deep into the forest and leaves them there to die. But the two decide to look for their father. So, they set out into the forest looking for a familiar passage when suddenly they come across a house made of bread and a roof made of cake. They attack the house in hunger and begin munching on the bread and cake. Within a few minutes of them eating, an old lady opens the door and asks the children to step in. She turns out to be a child-eating witch who enslaves Gretel and cages Hansel to eat him. She asks Gretel to feed her brother and make him fat so that she can consume a healthy child. After seven days, after checking Hansel’s finger to see if he has gained weight, she asks Gretel to start the oven. But Gretel instead asks her to check the oven temperature and expresses her inability to fit in it. When the witch enters the oven to see if she can fit, they push her in and lock her, leaving her to burn and die. The two then rummage through her house and find enough precious stones and gems to make for a comfortable life. So they take what they can carry. They somehow locate their home and reunite with their father.Now in this tale, the two protagonists are Hansel and Gretel, They show exceptional grit and courage in fighting the witch with supernatural powers and evading their obstacles to reach their happy ending. So, we can trace their hero cycle in the following format.The ordinary world: The story shows Hansel and Gretel as two impoverished young children who lead an ordinary life without any adventure. They are unlikely heroes with no background of heroic acts in their family.The call to adventure: When Hansel and Gretel are left to die in the forest by their father and step mother, they face their first big adventure. They are forced to survive the unforgiving deep forest, which is replete with dangerous animals and possible magic.

Refusal of the call: The two main protagonists—Hansel and Gretel—feel the fear of the unknown in this stage. They even try to find their house running away from a possible adventure in the deep forest, but do not succeed. Here, Gretel also expresses the uncertainty and dangers ahead to Hansel.Crossing the threshold: Hansel and Gretel decide to tread deeper to look for their father but end up near a house made of cake and bread. After an invitation from the old lady of the house, they cross the threshold of the forest to enter the house. This shows their innocence and the beginning of a new phase for them.The ordeal: Now in the middle of the story, both the heroes—Hansel and Gretel—enter a central space in the special world and confront death and their greatest fear (being eaten by the old lady who turns out to be a witch). While Gretel is enslaved and tasked with feeding her brother, Hansel is caged. They give each other hope and manage to keep themselves alive while they try to hatch a plan to escape.Supernatural element: The supernatural element in this story is the old lady who is a cannibalistic witch with magical powers. We can identify her powers with the fact that she smells her human prey (Hansel and Gretel), and turns her house into one made from cake and bread so that they stumble upon it.Supreme ordeal: Their main task is to escape from the witch. So when she approaches Hansel to cook him, Gretel asks her to check the oven temperature and expresses her inability to fit into the oven. When the witch enters the oven to see if she can fit, they push her in and lock her, leaving her to burn and die.Return with elixir: Hansel and Gretel find precious stones in the house and take what they can carry. They head back home, are reunited with their father, and live happily ever after. This last step also elaborates the moral of the story, which in this case is to have faith and courage and watch each other’s back.While most of the fairy tales have a single hero or heroine, this story has two protagonists who work as a team and defeat the witch, proving their intelligence and heroic qualities.

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Answer 2

Monsters play a vital role in our communal and individual psyche. A monster beneath the bed represents a child's unspoken fears and dread of the unknown. Similarly, popular culture icons like horror movie slashers like Jason serve as places for investigating the unknown or otherness, a society's suppressed fears and anxieties. Recently, popular culture has sought to reclaim and modify famous monsters. For example, Anne Rice's vampire books turn the vampire from a bloodsucking evil to a multifaceted and sympathetic figure. Monsters Inc. and Shrek convert monsters into charming and cuddly plush toys. In fact, Shrek I conclude with the wicked prince in the belly of a dragon. Shrek I defy the usual fairy tale by finding love, completeness, and fellowship in the outcast. The creatures that have long plagued our collective fantasies may be able to display real monstrousness, Shrek I indicate.

Like the other instances, John Gardener's book Grendel seeks to rewrite one of the oldest monster stories in Western literature by concentrating only on the monster's viewpoint. In this story, Beowulf defeats a fearsome monster that has terrorized a country for years. The monster's defeat is merely a minor theme in the Old English poem Beowulf's epic achievements. Because the story of Beowulf was originally intended to commemorate Beowulf's adventures, Gardner's book Grendel tells the monster's story.

For example, as a medievalist, Gardner authored three volumes on Chaucer, wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and wrote a book on Christianity and Old English poetry. To Gardner, medieval studies were "a kind of Walt Disney universe where dragons were more numerous than bankers or postmen." Gardner had authored thirty works of fiction, translation, and criticism by the time he died, aged 42. Gardner's novels bucked the negative and cynical tendencies of the 1970s. He intended to help individuals "see their way clear to the heroic." Gardner thought fiction was more than a means of escape. In a Grendel interview, he said, "The subject matter is Anglo-Saxon, but the approach is what Walt Disney would have done if he hadn't gotten caught up in the romanticism of smiling Mickey Mouse."

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